The UK distributors of Nordic Noir are no fools. Following our rapturous devotion to Sarah Lund and sadness at waving her goodbye, they're tirelessly ...

If you're having trouble saying goodbye to Sarah Lund, who takes her bow and departs the Danish TV stage at the end of this third and final series of ...

So the Zeuthens have lost all faith in the police, the police have lost all faith in Special Branch, and Lund has lost all faith in Borch, as 'The Kil...

I counted, and it was a whole 12 minutes before Sarah Lund's torch came out this week. But there it was, with Lund once again deserted, cut off from h...

"You know full well that when it comes to feelings, you tend to run away." Finally, after two full series and two episodes, we get to the heart of 'Th...

A politician juggling for power, a shipping magnate battling to stay ahead of his board members. If this sounds a bit dry, of course we know it’s no...

'The Killing's Sarah Lund is notable for the fact that, unlike other female TV detectives, she doesn't seem too bothered with her appearance or her su...

We left her a woman destroyed; emotions tattered by cruel betrayals, body intact rather more by luck than judgment, and partner - once more - decidedl...

It was a battle of the Danes at this year's TV BAFTAs, with Borgen emerging triumphant to steal the International Award out from under the nose of its...

It was a battle of the Danes at this year's TV BAFTAs, with Borgen emerging triumphant to steal the International Award out from under the nose of its...

Life continues after The Killing for the TV sensation that put Danish noir on the map and made a star of Sofie Gråbøl and that jumper. After the US spin-off and the Danish sequel comes the novelisation of detective Sarah Lund, written by British author David Hewson.

You cannot half watch a Danish subtitled drama while tweeting, if you do you may well miss that vital clue or coalition negotiation. They force the viewer to put down their phone, switch off their laptop, slip on a nice knitted jumper and convince themselves that if they concentrate hard enough they really can understand Danish.

Having a birthday at the bleak, grey end of the year has instilled in me a feeling of resignation about such events. This year however, I was filled ...

There have been a series of disappearances since Christmas in our area. Mothers and fathers plucked from the bosom of their families unexpectedly. Distraught children. And all of this, the work of a serial thriller.

There we were, thinking the end of The Killing meant we'd had our fill of Danish intrigue. Instead, BBC4 has cannily filled the Saturday night gap lef...

The first thing to say about Sofie Grabol is that she is NOTHING like her alter ego Sarah Lund to talk to. Lund, the detective at the heart of Dan...

When The Killing was first shown on BBC4 earlier this year, it attracted 470,000 viewers and garnered a BAFTA - not bad for a programme costing the Co...

Viewers forced to make do with the US version of The Killing can breathe a sigh of relief. The original Danish version - the ONLY version according to...

Sofie Grabol has admitted that her character in The Killing, the poker-faced Sarah Lund, has become dependent on her jumper, which makes a welcome ret...

In possibly the most unexpected cameo appearance since Kate Moss joined chavtastic Vicky Pollard in Little Britain, Sofie Gråbøl, of serious BBC4 dr...